Positive Quotes

Inspirational Thoughts, Encouragement Quotes, Positive Sayings, Free Inspirational Quotes and Other Positive Resources

Positive quotes can help you as you deal with adversity, challenges and problems in life. This selection of free inspirational quotes can help lift your spirits and inspire you. Draw strength, faith and encouragement from them.

Inspirational thoughts such as these can really inspire you to keep going. Below, I've collected some of my favorite inspiring quotes for you to reference.

Lastly, I invite you to bookmark or right down your favorites and reference them often.

Positive Quotes 1 - 30:

Fine beauty in small things. Remember important things. Be grateful for all things. ~ Unknown  (Blog Post; Small Important Things).

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt  (Blog Post: Today is a Present).

The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.  ~ Bertrand Russell

Live your life leaving where you have been better than you found it. ~  Unknown

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.  ~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.  ~ Sophocles

Best trust the happy moments. The days that make us happy make us wise.  ~ John Masefield

Happiness is the resultant of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings rather than an absolute amount of one or the other.  ~  Norman Bradburn

Happiness is no a station to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.  ~  Margaret Lee Runbeck

The really happy man is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.  ~  Unknown

We do not remember days, we remember moments. ~ Cesara Pavese

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in. ~ Katherine Mansfield

Don't make the mistake of  letting yesterday use up too much of today. ~ Unknown

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then, do what you need to do, in order to have what you want. ~  Margaret Young

If  you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand. ~ Buddha

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.  ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

You have to take it as it happens, but you should try to make it happen the way you want to take it.  ~ Old German Proverb

The happy and efficient people in this world are those who accept trouble as a normal detail of human life and resolve to capitalize it when it comes along.  ~ H. Bertram Lewis

Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps 'til the legend, "over steep ways to the starts," fulfills self.  ~ William C. Doane

Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.  ~ Lin Yutang

If you do not find peace in yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.  ~ Paula A. Bendry

Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of God no matter what the conflict.  ~ Unknown

Life all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, as long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had? ~ Henry James

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.  ~  George Santayana

All animals except man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.  ~  Samuel Butler

Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.  ~ Socrates

Happiness depends upon ourselves.  ~ Aristotle

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.  ~  Abraham Lincoln

Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dog.  ~  Josh Billings

Positive Quotes 31 - 50:

A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.  ~ Chinese Proverb

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret to being happy is doing things for other people.  ~  Dick Gregory

When you dig another out of their troubles, you find a place to bury your own.  ~  Unknown

To get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with.  ~ Mark Twain

The happiness of  your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.  ~ Marcus Aurelis

All happiness is in the mind.  ~  Unknown

No rose without a thorn.  ~  French Proverb

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.  ~  Marcus Annaeus Seneca

Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking, just as ill health indicates bad regimen.  ~  Paul Bourge

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.  ~  Joseph Joubert

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.  ~  Alexander Pope

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.  ~  Russell Baker

There is more to life than just existing and having a good time.  ~ J.C. F von Schiller

I'm happier - I guess I made up my mind to be that way.  ~ Merle Haggard

Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.   ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is arrogant to expect that life will always be music - Harmony, like a following breeze at sea, is the exception. In a world where most things wind up broken or lost, out lot is to tack and tune.  ~ Harvey Oxebhorn

One cannot get through life without pain. What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.  ~ Bernie S. Siegel, M. D.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.  ~  George Bernard Shaw

God asks no man whether he will accept life. This is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how.  ~ Henry Ward Beecher

The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is, who find the least fault.  ~  Charles Dudley Warner

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